$1.$ Search the web for four different project management software packages.

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o What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of each packaged software?

o What advice would you give to someone intending to buy project management soft ware for his or her PC$?$ Why?

$2.$ A project has been defined to contain the following list of activities along with their required times for completion.

Activity No$.$ Activity Time $($Weeks$)$ Immediate Predecessors

$1$ Collect Requirements $2--$

$2$ Analyze processes $31$

$3$ Analyze data $32$

$4$ Design processes $72$

$5$ Design Data $62$

$6$ Design screens $13,4$

$7$ Design Reports $54,5$

$8$ Program $46,7$

$9$ Test and document $87$

$10$ Install $28,9$

a$.$ Show the Gantt Chart for the activities.

b$.$ Calculate the earliest expected completion time of the project $($in weeks$).$

c$.$ What would happen if activity $6$ were revised to take six weeks instead of one week $($be specific$)?$